The Blockchain Workshop: Strategic Orientation and Vision

On June 22, 2018, School of Information and Communication Technology – the University of Danang (SICT, UD) in cooperation with College of Information Technology, UD (CIT,UD) successfully organized the Blockchain Workshop: Strategic Orientation and Vision.

The 4.0 industrial revolution is taking place very strongly and has a great impact on socio-economic aspects in the world. Among a lot of new technologies developed such as Internet of things (IoT), Artificial intelligence (AI), Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality(AR), Cloud computing, another technology that has attracted so much attention recently is Blockchain technology.

Blockchain is regarded as a breakthrough technology, leading the industrial revolution 4.0, changing the world and greatly affecting on the management model, business model, payment method...

Blockchain technology allows to storage and transmit data. With superior features such as transparency, decentralization and high security, Blockchain technology has been the first application to store and transact Bitcoin electronic currency on the Internet. Recently, many countries in the world have seriously researched and applied Blockchain technology in management mission such as Sweden, Hondaras, Estonia, and Singapore. In particular, Japan has applied aggressively and implemented a lot of Blockchain projects. However, in Vietnam this technology is not really popular.

Speaker Nguyen Ngoc Quoc Trung shared about Blockchain

This workshop is considered as an important milestone that marks the beginning of the strategic direction of the development of Blockchain technology at SICT and CIT. In the coming time, SICT and CIT continued to cooperate and exchange with foreign enterprises and partners such as Block Coplus, New Dining Group, i-NEX Company (Japan) to implement many development programs such as organizing several workshops; opening training courses; setting up laboratories that implement several pilot and practical Blockchain projects.

It is known that, on June 29, 2018, Assoc. Prof. Huynh Cong Phap – Rector of CIT, Dean of SICT, will be honored to be one of 35 experts, researchers and developers of the Blockchain ecosystems to report at the Blockchain International Conference in Tokyo with more than 5,000 international representatives.

The development orientation of Blockchain technology at SICT and CIT in the coming time will definitely contribute to build a sustainable ecosystem for supporting the development of Blockchain technology in Vietnam and Danang.